Take a Look Around

Our thoughts are so often just a product of our past, or on some concern for the future, that we need to stop and take a look around for a moment.  If we just simply take a look around we would find two very interesting things going on~ On one hand, none of our thoughts are actually happening, and on the the other hand there's a lot more mystery unfolding than we might have imagined. 
To realize that none of the content of our thinking is actually taking place is a great liberation because we don't have to be conditioned and controlled by the past and fears of the future.
To realize that there's a great mystery unfolding before us is a great thrill to our system, and we see that there is a wholeness that always here... even when our thoughts are dwelling in some fearful or excited state there is a reality present in and around us that has nothing to do with our thoughts.
The challenging moment is the one where we have the willingness to stop and take a look around, when everything in our being is telling us to worry, fight, escape, hate, defend.... the willingness itself is a courage and power to transcend our tiny modes of consciousness and open to the vast experience that's happening all around us in, as Kabir writes, "in the tiniest house of time".